<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>The pilcrow sign is offically mentioned in RFC 7992. See section 5.2. So I would consider it the conventional representation for anchor links.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 12. April 2024 um 18:46 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
<b>An:</b> unicode@corp.unicode.org<br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: Aw: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The first and last choice are arguably not the most conventional representations for these. They are, at best, fallbacks.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A./</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/2024 12:31 AM, Marius Spix via Unicode wrote:</div>
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<div>For all these types of links existing characters can be used:</div>
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<div>anchor links: U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN</div>
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<div>local links: U+1F517 🔗 LINK SYMBOL</div>
<div>broken links (also known as red-links): U+26D3 U+200D U+1F4A5 CHAINS + ZERO WIDTH JOINER + COLLISION SYMBOL</div>
<div>external links: U+2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW</div>
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<div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 11. April 2024 um 21:05 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" onclick="" target="_blank"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Tom Moore" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tom.moore@microsoft.com" onclick="" target="_blank"><tom.moore@microsoft.com></a>, "Sławomir Osipiuk" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sosipiuk@gmail.com" onclick="" target="_blank"><sosipiuk@gmail.com></a>, "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" onclick="" target="_blank"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol</div>
<div>On 4/11/2024 11:47 AM, Tom Moore wrote:<br/>
> Then multiply that by 2, for links that navigate current tab vs. request to open a new tab.<br/>
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Is there a link to samples for all of these as used in practice, or is<br/>
this just a theoretical distinction?<br/>
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> -----Original Message-----<br/>
> From: Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org" onclick="" target="_blank"><unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org></a> On Behalf Of Slawomir Osipiuk via Unicode<br/>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2024 9:28 AM<br/>
> To: asmusf <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:asmusf@ix.netcom.com" onclick="" target="_blank"><asmusf@ix.netcom.com></a>; Asmus Freytag via Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" onclick="" target="_blank"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br/>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol<br/>
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> There are actually three kinds of links that are distinguishable from each<br/>
> other:<br/>
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> - A link to a different location in the current document (anchor link/jump<br/>
> link)<br/>
> - A link to a resource on the same network/domain as the current document (local link/relative link)<br/>
> - A link to a resource on a different network (external link)<br/>
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> All those can appear as symbols, used contrastively, within a run of text.<br/>
> I'm very surprised these haven't already been encoded and that there is any controversy. The consortium doesn't care much for precendent, but come on, we have "play"and "eject" symbols encoded!<br/>
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